Improvement in peg-boxes for pegging-machines



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, intrd 51am anni @time ALBERT WORTl-IINGTON MOORE, OF EAST BRIM'FIELD, MASSACUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 108,719, dated october 25, 1870.'

IMPROVEMENT IN .PEG-BOXES- FOR PEGGlNG-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters "Patent and making part' of lthe same.

I', ALBERT WORTHINGTON Moons, of East Brimcld, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Peg- Boxesfor Pegging-Machines, which invention is described as follows.

Nature and Object of the Invention.

The object of lthis invention is to sol construct a peg-box as to allow of different numbers or thicknesses of peg-wood being used in the same box.

To this end I provide the peg-box with a back plate, adapted tobear upon the peg-wood and the severed pegs with a vyielding pressure, so as to keep the pegs lDescription of the Accompanying Dra-wing.

Figure 1 is a plan or top vewof a peg-box, illustrating my invention.

Figure 2 is afront'elevation of the Same.

Figure 3 is a vertical section at x 2:, g. 1.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section. at y y, fig. 2.

In iigs. 1, 2, and 4 the ribbon of peg-wood'is shown at I), and the severed pegs at p. In iig. 3 they are omitted. In the sectional views, figs. 3 and 4, the driver is omitted.

Gene-ral Description.

A represents the body of the peg-box, and

15, an arm, by -which it is attached to the machine.

C is a guide, employed to confine the peg-woodP vertically or edgewise, and secured adjustably by a set-screw, D, bearing upon the pin c, which projects downward from the guide-plate C;

E represents the slot or-v groove where the pegs are severed.

The feed mechanism, F, may be constructed and operated in any` common or proper manner. l

G represents my self-adj usting back plate, which is employedto press against the rear side of the pegwood P and the pegs p, to confine both in proper position. The pressureis produced by a suitable spring.

In this illustration I employ a spiral spring, H, conllined by a screw, I.

J J .are screws lpassing freely through the box A, and threaded in the pressure-plate G, so that, by turning the said screws in till their heads j j bear-against '\\tlie box, the pressure-plate may be drawn away from the peg-wood, if necessary, when introducing or rmoving the same, or for any purpose. At other times the said screws, while coulining the pressure-plate aga-inst'edgewise motion, permit it to move freely toward the peg-wood uiiderpressure of the spring H. This freedom of movement and pressure of the plate G adapt the box to receive peg-wood of any thickness.

The pegs, which are successively severed at the slot or groove E, are carried forward by the feed movement, and, by' meansl of the pressure-plate, are con- -ined in a proper path, and in vertical position, until 'reaching the groove k,inwhich the driver L works.

The groove k is form'ed in a removable cap, K, a number of such caps being used, with grooves of difjferent dimensions, to correspond with the size of driver required towork anynumber or thickness of pegwood.

I am thus enabled to work wood of very different thickness with perfect success inone andthe same box.

I A(J'lwims.

I claim as my inventionv, 1. The pressure-plate G, employed to confine pegwood and severed pegs of any thickness, when combined with a feed-roller, F, and with a'peg-box fed from the end, substantially as set forth.

' 2. The removable cap K, constructed with a groove, It, to receive a driver of any required size corresponding with the thickness of wood being worked.

' ALBERT WORTHINGTON M OORE.

Witnesses:

F. W. BOTHAM, WILLIAM TUCKER. 

